Porter Portraits
People's Inauguration
November 19, 2024
Students Power Resurvey of UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserves
December 18, 2019
Raising Awareness of ‘Deficit Thinking’
December 18, 2019
Porter Student Billy Woo: From UCSC to Vietnam
June 3, 2015
Reuben Barrack's Nathan Foley-Mendelssohn Travel Scholarship Report about Cambodia
April 1, 2015
Porter Alum Tom Franco, Founder/Director of Firehouse Art Collective
January 15, 2015
Franco’s projects are the mature expression of his lifelong study of what art really is, and an essential element for community to honor and give space for on-going creative expression.
Camellia Boutros' Trip to Palestine
November 6, 2014
Bob Giges---UCSC Alumnus and Still Preceptoring at Porter After 35 Years
October 2, 2014
Porter Preceptor Bob Giges is a graduate of Kresge College and has now celebrated his 35th year as a Porter Academic Preceptor.
Payam Yousefi: Huffman Prize Winner - Bioengineering with Artist's Eye
June 6, 2014
The Astonishing World of UCSC's Porter Alum Artist Brandon Bird
August 22, 2013
Brandon Bird "...is an artist known for inclination to draw and paint figures from pop culture in absurd situations." As he noted during his Senior year while at Porter, "...my ideas may be ironic, but they're also completely sincere."
New Resarch Study by Professor of Theater Arts Edward Warburton
August 1, 2013
“Smaller scale movement systems with low energetic costs such as speech, sign language, and gestures may likewise accrue cognitive benefits, as might be the case in learning new multisyllabic vocabulary or working on one’s accent in a foreign language.”
The Porter College-Dave Brubeck Connection
January 4, 2013
On a sunny afternoon in the early '80s, jazz great Dave Brubeck slipped onto the UC Santa Cruz campus for a visit to Porter College that would remain a nearly invisible slice of university history — until the pianist and composer's death at the age of 91.
Porter College-Dave Brubeck "Take Five" Connection
January 4, 2013
On a sunny afternoon in the early '80s, jazz great Dave Brubeck slipped into Porter College (College V) for a visit that would remain a nearly invisible slice of university history — until the pianist and composer's death at the age of 91.
Kevin Beggs, Porter Alum '89, Lionsgate Television Group President
January 12, 2012
“The term ‘critical thinking’ is thrown around loosely, but UCSC really pushes that….You don’t just turn that off when you leave college.”
Julia Sweig, '86 Porter Alum, Named UCSC Distinguished Alumni of 2011
October 13, 2011
UCSC's interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program provided ideal preparation for her career.
UCSC Porter '90 alum Gillian Welch does it again
August 8, 2011
While at UCSC Welch played bass in a goth band, and drums in a psychedelic surf band. One day a roommate played an album by a bluegrass band and she had an epiphany: I just stood up and walked into the other room as if I was in a tractor beam and stood in front of the stereo. It was just as powerful as the electric stuff, and it was songs I'd grown up singing. All of a sudden I'd found my music.
Maya K. Rudolph
May 6, 2011
One might not be aware that Porter Alum Maya K. Rudolph of Saturday Night Live fame started her multi-faceted career as a musician with her first band, Supersauce, formed here at UCSC.
Kent Nagano
February 24, 2011
Porter Alum Kent Nagano has received his third Grammy Award. He attributes "UCSC's unique structure [which} placed exceptional scholars in close working relationships with students" as an important part of his journey.
Randall P. Grahm
January 20, 2011
Porter graduate, founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard, remains a puer aeternus which he says sometimes happens to UCSC alumni
Cynthia Thickpenny
December 9, 2010
Porter Grad - 2nd Student in UCSC history to be honored with a Marshall Scholarship!
George Hitchcock: In Memoriam
October 7, 2010
“...Through his own work as a poet, actor, director, publisher, teacher, and later through his generosity and vision as a donor, George Hitchcock empowered multiple generations of innovative poets.” Provost D.E. Jones
